They are the only women known to routinely wear the towering headdress, or coiffe, that was once a part of daily life here. Age has bent their bodies, but the stiff lace stands tall atop their ...

They reconstructed the woman's headdress based on the practice of shamanism known from Siberia and elsewhere in northern Eurasia. The various animal bones, shells, tusks and antlers could have ...

The headdress is the most characteristic piece of clothing for the Akha women. The style of the headdress depends on multiple factors, including age and in which stage a girl or (young) woman is in ...

"When I see a non-Indigenous person wearing a headdress, it feels like my entire culture has been reduced to a prop, a costume." JJ Neepin is the director of Headdress, short documentary about the ...

GALVESTON, Texas -- Mardi Gras season is a busy time for Megan Maberry, owner of Hurricane Headdress. When she is not working as a full-time art teacher, she designs one-of-a-kind headpieces.

Akha women traditionally wear a jacket, short skirt, sash with decorated ends, leggings, and their most characteristic piece of clothing, a headdress. Akha women decorate their clothing and themselves ...